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Posted: Tue 26 Feb 2008, 18:27
Post subject: report on vi text editor
I've had one report, from another thread, of the vi text editor, as provided in my dotpet, not working. However, I've tested it on my Puppy 2.17.1 machine and it works perfectly for me.
I'd be grateful if any of you who have used the vi dotpet provided could let me know if it worked okay for you, and on what hardware and Puppy version. If others are having trouble with it, I'd endeavour to find a work around or fix for the problem, but I need more info to sort out what the issue is.
Also, if anyone knows of a modeless full screen commandline usable text editor that doesn't have any status line (which tends to keep being spoken out by yasr/espeak) I'd be happy to hear about it. Not everyone likes vi (!) but I've not been able to find a simple full screen editor which works with yasr/espeak (the ones I have tried don't speak out what is happening on screen or speak out too much junk - such as an ever-changing status line). If you do suggest one, I'd be particularly interested in any special configuration it needs to make it work well with the yasr/espeak screen reader environment (e.g. any option allowing the turning off of the editor's status line).
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Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2008, 17:01
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Subject description: Vi working on 2.14R
I've installed Lynx and Vi on 2.14R and both seem to be running OK. I had my doubts about Vi until I found out that you need to press Esc to enter any text! It could appear to be broken if you expected to be able to enter text straight away, which was my first thought. It runs though, which is what you need to know
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Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2008, 18:40
Post subject: vi needs an initial escape key press to enter command mode
Subject description: Vi working on 2.14R
Keef wrote:
I've installed Lynx and Vi on 2.14R and both seem to be running OK. I had my doubts about Vi until I found out that you need to press Esc to enter any text!
Thanks, Keef. Yes, vi takes a bit of getting used to since it is not modeless (i.e. it isn't automatically in insert text mode).
The basic commands any user needs in order to use vi are:
1. Either start vi with a filename to edit or tell vi what filename to use later. For example, when writing the edited file to disc at the end you can use the special colon command :w filename
2. Once vi has started, press escape key in order to enter main command mode.
3. Press 'i' key in order to enter insert text mode, or
4. press 'a' key in order to enter append text mode.
5. Press escape key, once you have finished adding text, in order to return to main command mode.
6. Press the special colon command :w followed by pressing enter key in order to write (i.e. save) your file to disc. If you haven't already done so, you need to supply a filename here. For example :w myfile.txt
7. Press the special colon command :q followed by pressing enter key in order to quit vi
8. If you want to quit vi without saving what you have done you need to press the special forcing colon command :q! followed by pressing enter key in order to forcibly quit vi
(i.e. the exclamation mark here means "force").
Note that you can combine the write and quit commands by entering :wq filename
I've now uploaded these instructions to my current screen reader environment repository (at Caneri's site) as the file viREADME.txt, in order to help people get started with using vi:
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Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2008, 19:53
Post subject: edbrowseUSAGEexamples.txt now uploaded
In addition to viREADME.txt, I've now also uploaded a collection of slightly edited forum posts on edbrowse usage examples in the file edbrowseUSAGEexamples.txt
Hopefully, these will help you learn how to use edbrowse. Note, that I was only learning edbrowse usage myself at the time I wrote these, so you will almost certainly find better ways of doing things.
Remember, once you have installed all the ScreenReaderEnviro dotpets, on whatever Puppy Linux system you are using, you can start up the whole SRE environment under menu control by simply entering the following two commands, one after the other, in a console commandline window:
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Posted: Wed 27 Feb 2008, 21:17
Post subject: menusp updated to version 0.8.1
Subject description: now with rudimentary HELP system
As well as the readme's mentioned in the above few posts, menusp has also been upgraded (now to version 0.8.1)
It now, using the vi program, also provides a rudimentary help system in its menu choices. For that to work, however, you need to install the two new dotpets:
(you should uninstall menusp-0.8.0.pet first, using PETget package manager)
All the latter really does is store the various SRE readme files in /usr/local/share/doc/sreadenv/
Unfortunately, espeak doesn't make too good a job of reading some of the help readme texts in their present form.
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Posted: Thu 28 Feb 2008, 01:35
Post subject: sc spreadsheet addition, other dotpets modified to suit
Sorry for such a quick change/modification/addition to the ScreenReaderEnviro, but I came across a commandline spreadsheet called sc which uses vi-like key-bindings.
Had a bit trouble compiling it (needed to modify xmalloc.c malloc type declaration to void), but that got it compiled.
I can't say sc works with yasr/espeak to my satisfaction, so your mileage will vary, and it probably has a bit of a learning curve (comes with a tutorial though). I admittedly pressed alt-enter to temporarily disable yasr whilst studying sc's tutorial and help instructions in this instance.
EDIT: sc works not too bad afterall, even with yasr. As a test I summed a column of three numbers as follows:
1. I moved to A0 (can use vi controls hjkl or the cursor keys) and pressed 'e' to edit the cell contents.
2. I entered the value 5
3. I similary put the values 7 and 4 in cells A1 and A2 respectively.
4. In cell A3 I entered the formula: @sum(A0:A2)
and the spreadsheet correctly displayed the total = 16.
Anyway, it may prove useful and I've consequently modified/upgraded version numbers of some of the other related dotpets. You thus need to re-download and install:
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Posted: Sun 02 Mar 2008, 08:06
Post subject: The SRE is now available as a single 4 MByte dotpet
Subject description: Includes latest pdf capable edbrowse.
The Screen Reader Environment, suitable for adding to many Puppy Linux distributions, is now available in the form of a single dotpet whose total size is less than 4 MBytes.
It contains the latest cvs version of edbrowse, which is now pdf (text) capable.
For details see top post of this thread at:
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Posted: Sun 02 Mar 2008, 10:41
Post subject: minor documentation change now SREcore-0.9.2
Sorry, I had forgotten to add the edbrowse usersguide to the menu, so have re-uploaded. Now SREcore version 0.9.2
Apart from a couple of other minor documentation fixes it is the same code as 0.9.0.
Don't worry about PETget manager suggesting there are around four dependencies missing. It all sorts itself out (they aren't missing...)
Thanks to Eric (Caneri) you can find the SRE dotpet at:
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Posted: Sun 02 Mar 2008, 12:10
Post subject: catppt also in the new ALLinOne SRWcore dotpet
I should also have mentioned somewhere that as well as catdoc and xls2csv, catppt for extracting data from MS-Powerpoints is also in the new all-in-one SRE filesystem. Could be occasionally handy.
Now going to download the latest Dingo alpha so that I can ensure compatibility, but I expect no problem there.
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Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2008, 08:33
Post subject: Please reinstall SREcore: major error rectified
Unfortunately, there was a major error in the SREcore dotpet uploaded yesterday, that for once was no fault of my own!
However, I have now rectified the error and uploaded the new fixed version, SREcore-0.9.3.pet, to its usual repository:
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Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2008, 21:31
Post subject: Documentation and espeak issues
The documentation provided in this 'first' release is hopefully better than nothing, but not much more than that.
Documentation in itself is a huge job, and even the authors of the provided applications, who have worked on their documentation for years, struggle to provide it in an easy to assimilate form.
As with anything else, there are many conflicting ideas about what style and format of documentation is best.
On Puppy Linux, for install size considerations, it is common practice to strip out as much installed documentation as possible, and to rely on the applications' online documentation.
However, sometimes it is nice to have some local docs available.
I am concerned to keep the SREcore dotpet down in size, so I am now going to create a separate dotpet, SREcoredocs, for documentation alone, so that the user can choose to install it or not. I can however only supply the documentation I have had time to write, or that which the various applications' authors have provided. It is thus up to the individual user to tailor any provided documentation for their own needs. Of course, if users post their own more polished help file efforts, I will select from these for possible inclusion in my to-be-provided SREcoredocs dotpet. Html forms of documentation would be especially nice since they allow easy navigation.
Note well that a major task in writing such documentation is to make it as espeak friendly as possible. For example, the filename of the program I often refer to as "k rec speakk" is really "krecspk" but the latter spelling is very poorly enunciated by e speak. Like wise email is better written in separate syllables as "e mail" and vi as v i. You need to experiment to find the best ways for other symbols and words.
The skeleton menusp program, which I provide, is also due for some simple restructuring related to documentation handling. However, menusp, is only intended as a possible starter template and users are encourage to write their own frontend UI's for their own purposes.
A simple menu, from another project, which illustrates the kind of thing required can be seen at:
[just over half way down that page]
However, in the case of the S R E there is more than one text editor and browser to be linked to from the menu, so the simple naming scheme of the above link (first referred to by Lobster as far as I know) is probably not quite appropriate.
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Posted: Mon 03 Mar 2008, 22:09
Post subject: Using the S R E alongside a G U I browser
Note that the Screen Reader Environment is not intended to be useful solely for blind users. The visually impaired generally and sighted users as well may find it useful. Indeed I often run edbrowse, as a way of reading out webpage text, but maybe quickly visit the same webpage in Seamonkey at the same time, just to have any images visible.
That is, a G U I browser can conveniently provide graphics images, whilst the S R E can read out the page. This is a simpler alternative to the use of any bloated screen-scraper type of solution to transform the text content of a complex G U I browser such as Seamonkey.
Indeed, the above process can easily be automated in a frontend script.
You can also highlight any GUI text anywhere and copy it into the cut/paste buffer and execute commands like:
xcut -p | espeak
or, paste the text into v i and press alt-w to get yasr to read it.
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2008, 00:17
Post subject: next version of menusp
The next version of my very basic, skeleton menusp program, that I am in the process of testing, will take the following U I form:
Press: backspace to momentarily stop audio messages
e for Edbrowse web browser and email
k for K rec-speakk for audio recording/playback
l for Lynx web browser
s for Spreadsheet
v for V I text editor
b for Bash shell prompt
e u for Edbrowse brief usage
k u for K rec-speakk brief usage
l u for Lynx brief usage
s u for Spreadsheet brief usage
v u for V I brief usage
x for Xtra applications
c for Configure the S R E
h for Help guides and tutorials
q for Quit
Make your choice
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Posted: Tue 04 Mar 2008, 08:39
Post subject: SREcore-0.9.4.pet released. Major menusp developments.
Some rapid development in progress today on the Screen Reader Environment provided menu/help system program script, menusp.
SREcore-0.9.4.pet is accordingly newly packaged and ready for download. Everything compiled on Puppy 2.17.1 and also tested on 3.01 and 2.14R.
Download as usual from Caneri's site:
The whole filesystem remains embedded in the one dotpet of size less than 4 MBytes. After installing, start the SRE by entering the following two commands, one after the other:
Much work still needs to be done on the help system files to make them e speak friendly. Having them re written into html form would also be excellent. In the meantime, the available rough documentation remains within SREcore.
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Posted: Wed 05 Mar 2008, 06:11
Post subject: Feel free to modify the provided menu for your own needs
I've hopefully written the provided menusp in a way that is easy for anyone to modify, should they so wish. I've intentionally written the menu as a relatively simple and hopefully reasonably structured shell script at this stage, in order to make it more accessible to others who might want to customise it. For example, the key letters used to select categories can be changed to anything that suits.
I've also included what I hope is a complex/flexible enough hierarchical structure to the menu itself (for example, key h for help calls up another menu), to allow for easy adaptation and expansion. The same hierarchical structure can be duplicated elsewhere in the menu to expand it, if you wish, simply by cutting and pasting relevant sections of code appropriately and assigning suitable select keys. A more sophisticated programming technique could have been used, but for now I wanted to keep it in a language many people know.
If any particular user or group of users would like a custom arrangement, but do not know shell scripting, let me know and I'll see if I can help.
Whatever menu arrangement you do use, let me know what works for you. At this stage I'm perfectly happy to include several such menus in the dotpet. A menu such as the provided one takes up very little space, so choice in this case is a good thing I think. Indeed, the next menu may include a choice of "skins". Clearly, a more complex programming technique might be used in the future.
What I'd really like now is better, "blind friendly/ e speak friendly", documentation to replace what is provided currently. Though I've provided a fair amount of documentation from various sources, most of it is admittedly far from adequate, at this stage, in terms of usability and intelligibility when used with e speak.
Unfortunately, I don't have time at present to add much more documentation or to polish up the existing material. Furthermore, I know I'm not the best person to do that job; I'm not blind, and what I think works or sounds adequate may not actually be as good as I think it is. Indeed, no matter my good intentions, I can't trust myself to not occasionally look at the screen! So, I'm hoping some kind volunteers/testers, particularly those from within the blind/visually impaired community, will help in that all important but very complex documentation production and re writing process.
There are inevitably limitations with a package like this, which employs diverse applications, most of which were not written with screen reading in mind, like alone to work compatibly with each other. In that sense, this approach cannot fairly be compared to, for example, emacspeak, which employs the power of one huge but consistent application to do pretty much everything. Nevertheless, I hope that the SRE provides a lot of usable functionality in what is a very small and easily installed package.
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PLAYER57832 wrote:It makes you ineffective. The sell out bit is allowing Romney to win.Woodruff wrote:PLAYER57832 wrote:Woodruff wrote:PLAYER57832 wrote:Woodruff wrote:How does it feel to be a sellout and a sucker? You're a bought and paid for shill, you're being played, and you're happy about it.
Honestly, I would say that applies much more to you in this case than I.
Well that's an interesting claim. Perhaps you can point out exactly how that is true?
Well if Romney wins by a slim margin, then we can thank those who voted for third parties, particularly parties like the Green party with members that otherwise would vote Obama.
How does that make me a sellout or a shill?
That doesn't even make basic sense. Do you have no concept of what the term "sellout" means? Because it has nothing to do with a secondary coincidental result, that's for sure.
PLAYER57832 wrote:Woodruff wrote:PLAYER57832 wrote:There are other reasons, but this is far enough off topic.
Yeah, I didn't think you could back it up either.
Your jobs are and have been about supporting the status quo. I am not attacking the military, but to claim that youare opposing the system, and that I am a sell out because I am not voting for an ineffectual nominee, while your entire occupation is about supporting the system is, well hypocritical.
I believe in working within the system and changing it that way.
Getting the Federal money for the Green Party is literally working within the system. It's certainly more of an aspect of working for change than a vote for Obama is. We've seen how much Obama is willing to change the system...he's not.
PLAYER57832 wrote:Woodruff wrote:PLAYER57832 wrote:That could very much be said of the entire green party. They talk a good talk, but have never been effective. The reason is because they take such an extreme position and have a "take it all or leave it" attitude. They deny compromise and celebrate that as if it were some kind of gift or benefit.
The result is more and more marginalization, less and less voice, not more. They actually had chances to gain power in parts of CA, elsewhere... and utterly blew it. Yet, instead of changing, they keep on.
You keep saying things like this, and they keep being false. The Green Party is growing, not getting smaller.
It is not growing the way it could, by any means. And what I said above is very true.
No, what you said is not true. It very much IS growing, thanks in large part to the utter failure of the man you are going to be voting for again. The Green Party (and also the Libertarian Party) has a great opportunity in this election year, and the primary thing holding us back is individuals like yourself who vote for your fears instead of your values.
PLAYER57832 wrote:Woodruff wrote:It really is too bad that they stick to their principles though. I can see why someone who would vote for Obama wouldn't care for that too much.
Principles? Failure to compromise, to listen to others, to actually talk to others and hear what they are saying is not what I call "principles".
You do realize that it's possible to hear a position with an open mind and still disagree with it, right? That's called sticking to your principles. It's not called voting for someone so that you'll get a handout.
PLAYER57832 wrote:Also, while the green party is closer to what I would like to see, it is not fully what I agree with. I don't agree on their stance on the military, for example... though I do think we should have more debate on the topics they bring up.
For me, that's the primary attraction of both the Green Party and the Libertarian Party...more discourse. This two-party dichotomy-but-not-a-dichotomy we've got going on is frankly just stupid. That I happen to agree with both of them a little more than either of the other two "normal" parties is just icing on the cake.


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Please check out my other "Full to the Brim" posts as well. Many contests are still underway. I *try to* publish "Full to the Brim" every Friday. If I missed your book giveaway, feel free to mention it in the comment section or send me an email. Thanks for visiting my blog and come back soon!
My giveaways:
Little Sports Series Book Giveaway - Ends 11/14/11
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Book giveaways:
The Children's Book Review - Book Giveaway Ends 11/6
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three Christmas Books from Seedlings
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Thanks for sharing the link to Kristi's Book Nook. Each week I giveaway books for kids.
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November giveaways are Kristi's Book Nook will be Ten Little Puppies from 11/7 to 11/11
Giveaway Hop of When Life Gives you O.J. and Dancing Home from 11/8 to 11/12
3 Billy Goats Fluff from 11/14 to 11/18 and Gratitude Giveaway featuring The Dragons Apprentice and The Dancing Clock from 11/17 to 11/27
Nancy Drew & The Hardy Boys from 11/21 to 11/25. Thanks for sharing.
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2) Script URL (on DD): http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...ddmegamenu.htm
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Hello you clever jQuery masters! For my current project, I chose the Mega Menu for its fab dropdown customisation capacity.
Anyway, it works OK on iPhone/iPad - the touch activates the dropdown as expected - but unlike the more recently updated All Levels Nav Menu, the sub menu dropdowns don't hide again when the user taps elsewhere on the screen (outside of the menu)
So, I was wondering, would it be possible to request a script upgrade to incorporate this feature please? I'm OK with smaller jQuery functions but I don't think I'm quite ready to adapt this script myself (not without munging it up completely )


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Note: Helpers with this fight must be on 5-2 or higher in their own nation.
- This mission requires a certain level of Rank Bar for it to be offered. Complete Bat Hunt several times, or trade 3 crystals to a Temple Knight gate guard.
- Note: you might be able to flag this mission after completing Bat Hunt 5 times after Mission 5-1 is completed.
- If you have previously accepted the quest Under Oath, you will be unable to speak to Trion about the mission. You must complete the first portion of Under Oath that involves talking to various people in Southern San d'Oria.
- Talk to a San d'Orian Gate Guard and accept the mission.
- After accepting this mission:
- Speak to Halver.
- Speak to Prince Trion by clicking on Door: Prince Royal's Rm @ H-7 for a short cutscene.
- You need to be able to deal both physical and magic damage.
- Travel to Xarcabard and on to Castle Zvahl Baileys. If you have already gotten the Home Point #1 near the Throne Room, you can go straight to it.
- Note: there is no cutscene upon entering Castle Zvahl Baileys or Castle Zvahl Keep. The next cutscene is when you start the fight.
- Upon zoning into Castle Zvahl Baileys (consult the map for ease of navigation), move westward to the 4-way intersection at G-8; head south from here, down the stairs that you will soon come to, and then on to the second map through the border of E/F-8.
- On Map 2, move south to the bottom of I-9, finding a group of Orcs, then go up the stairs here; move west to G-9 (Yagudo) and go back down the stairs there, being careful to not fall off the circular ledges along the way; turn left from the staircase heading east, when you reach a gate, turn left again. Take the next right turn and make your way to another short stairway appearing on your right at the border of G/H-8 and go up; from there move west to zone into Castle Zvahl Keep.
- A short cut is to head to the Goblin section and drop down their hole. Once you climb back up the steps you will be behind the barrier so walk under the arch, hang a right, take an immediate left at the Quadav. Then walk up onto the platform turn left and up the gigantic staircase into the Keep.
- Once you enter Castle Zvahl Keep, you will have to open several gates/doors, very often in front of mobs that detect by sight. On Map 1, make your way to either point "A" at H-6 or "B" at H-10 to get to Map 2; on Map 2, strut through a few more doors and gates to "C" at E-8.
- On Map 3 you will encounter a series of teleport devices. Be aware that these devices will cancel the Invisible effect after they are used. Also, they will turn on and off from time to time, so you may have to wait on one before it teleports you. Once you use the last device (top-right corner, G-9), you will be on Map 4. Now make your way west, and zone to the Throne Room area via the Ore Door at G-7 (next to Home Point #1).
- Finally, go west all the way across the bridge here to the Throne Room door. Examine the door to view a cutscene and, when ready, examine again and select "The Shadow Lord Battle" to enter the BC.
Battle Edit
When ready, gather in front of the door. When you enter, a cutscene will happen and the fight begins:
- This fight is still classified "level capped" (with the previous level 50 cap restriction removed), which means buffs will wear upon entry.
- You have 30 minutes to complete this battlefield event.
- The Shadow Lord does not attack until you approach, so cast pre-fight buffs before getting closer.
- The Shadow Lord has 2 phases. In the first phase, he alternates between physical and magic immunity. He has magic immunity until around 50% HP, then starts to switch to physical. From this point he will switch about every 5 minutes or 1000 damage. In this phase he has 9,000 HP.
- When he's in his magic stance, he's immune to magical damage, and will mainly cast BLM spells such as elemental debuffs and tier 2 AoE nukes. He also has a weaponskill, Dark Nova (AoE dark damage).
- Dark Nova seems to indicate that he will switch to melee stance very soon, after casting a spell or two. So use your TP quickly.
- When he's in his melee stance, he's immune to physical damage, and uses a variety of weaponskills: Giga Slash, Kick Back, Umbra Smash. Mages should start dealing magical damage during this stance. Monks can use Formless Strikes to bypass the immunity.
- After the first phase is defeated, a brief cutscene will occur as he switches to phase two. He will immediately attack after this cutscene, so there's no time for rest.
- In this phase, the Shadow Lord will do nothing but his Implosion attack (which hits almost everywhere in the battlefield), but he only has 4000 HP and should go down quickly.
- Melees should use their two-hour abilities, and Icarus Wing, if possible, to have TP for their best weaponskill. Mages should cast their Curaga spells, and try to keep Stoneskin (and Phalanx, if available) up.
- Since hate is mostly irrelevant in this phase, mages should feel free to spam spells.
- The battle ends after the second phase. The Shadow Lord gives experience points for a Level 60 mob.
- After the Shadow Lord is defeated, another cutscene occurs. Once the cutscene ends, you will be transported back to the entrance of Castle Zvahl Baileys. You will also receive the key item Shadow Fragment.
- Speak to Halver, who will promote you to Rank 6.
- Report back to the Great Hall for a cutscene.
- (Optional) Talk with Rahal, Milchupain, Aramaviont, Curilla for additional dialogue.
Upon Completion Edit
- You can now take Lion's offer and visit Norg to begin the Zilart missions.
- If you are lv.65+ you may return to Xarcabard for the initial cutscene to begin Dynamis..
- Depending on your progress in the Rhapsodies of Vana'diel Missions, you may get a cutscene when you zone to San d'Oria to see Halver reminding you that you can now progress to the mission What Lies Beyond.
Game Description
- Mission Orders
- Head to Castle Zvahl in Xarcabard. Visit Chateau d'Oraguille to learn more.


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Wearing Orange
From Mask Magazine – by Carrie Feldman
When I was released from jail, I searched the internet for news stories about my case, curious what kind of mark would be left on my name from the four months I had served. The local paper in Minneapolis had written an article titled "Stuck 3 months in Iowa jail for refusal to testify." The story was fairly sympathetic, quoting both of my parents and my lawyer, and referred to me at one point as a "hero to scores of animal rights defenders around the world". The comment section, however, was full of diatribes about my terrorist affiliations and assertions that I should rot in prison. Nestled amongst them was an enigmatic quote posted by my mother:
"Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either, but right through every human heart, and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years."
It's a quote from Alexander Solzhenitsyn, about his experiences in a Russian prison. My mom said that she believed I had learned this during my time in jail.
She was right. People in prison are some of the most heavily classified and marginalized in our society — losing their very names to the categories of "inmate," "convict," and "criminal." I went through that process of dehumanization with women from backgrounds totally different from my own, and in a strange way it reaffirmed for me our shared humanity. I was able to see that people are just people, and they're just trying to get by as best they can. (more…)


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The Snow Day Edition [Some January Translations]
Along with about, well, everyone else in the northeast, I'm snowed into my apartment today, so instead of answering the phones at Open Letter (HA! no one ever calls us), I'm at home, working on our forthcoming anthology of Spanish literature, A Thousand Forests in One Acorn, and, as a break of sorts, I thought I'd put together our monthly list of books worth checking out. (For past versions, including one with a rant about my daughter's Odyssey of the Mind group, just click here.)
For the past few years, every December/January, we've been posting a series of "Best of the Year!" podcasts—on fiction, on nonfiction, on movies, on music (my personal favorite podcast)—along with resolutions about what Open Letter/Three Percent/me personally would like to accomplish in the forthcoming year. (See last year's post in which my number 1 resolution was to "Drink more mimosas!" Speaking of, it is a snow day, I do have some left over booze . . . )
Over the next few weeks, we'll probably maybe get right back on that. I hesitate only because I've read around about 10 million year end lists over the past few weeks, each of which was, by necessity, incomplete and incapable of addressing its incompleteness and the biases underpinning that. (I even read this article about Largehearted Boy's "List of Year End Lists.") Thanks to Facebook and the success of all those awful click-driven, shitty websites named in this article on The Year We Broke the Internet, social media exposes us every moment of every day to absurd list after absurd list.
Which isn't just annoying, but in the opinions of some (self included), pretty much a horrible thing for the world as a whole. (For more on Morozov, I highly recommend checking out this profile. And he lost 100 lbs on a rowing machine watching European art-house films? That's the exercise regime I need to sign up for.)
But there's something so compelling about seeing information in this way . . . It's like numbered, or at least ordered, compilations of information tap right into the reptilian part of our brain and spew out all the morphine feelings. Jason Diamond's ridiculous Top 10 List of Literary Snobs? I MUST HAVE IT. And hey look! I'm number 3!! WEEE!!
At the same time, we live in a world of way too much information. As awesome as this seems to techno-utopians, it's pretty much fucking up our brains. (Obviously, that's the scientific conclusion.) As I sit here, at my kitchen table, I have 20 tabs open on my browser—ranging from information about car batteries to Facebook to The Guardian's 'definitive' list of 1000 books to read to Pitchfork's list of upcoming albums to ESPN's Soccer section—Spotify is playing one of the 596 tracks I pulled out as my "favorites of 2013," to go along with the 5,000 more from 2010 onwards, and I'm staring right into my "to read" bookshelf (not to be confused with the "already read" and "probably going to die before I get there" bookshelves) that has 103 titles on it. And, no surprise, in between sentences, I'm getting my ass kicked at Words With Friends by both Tom Roberge and Steven Rosato. There's too much going on.
None of which is news to anyone.
And like a lot of people, one of my personal resolutions for 2014 is to fuck as much of this shit as I can and live in the real world for more than 15 minutes at a time without checking Twitter for the latest witty hashtag meme (#AddAWordRuinAMovie) or international football scores. OK, that's going too far. Football scores are still allowed.
I don't want to just do my "old man screaming at the goddamn trees to get off his yard" rant though. The thing is, I kind of can't live without all this stuff. Professionally. Without blog culture, I would never have "published" anything. Without email and Facebook and the rest of it, only a handful of people would ever have heard of Open Letter's books.
What I wonder is if there's a better, more effective way of providing readers with useful information. I started these monthly overviews because a) I wanted to pull out and highlight books that could get lost in somewhat overwhelming Translation Database and b) I wanted to make jokes.
This time of year always makes me a bit reflective . . . Not to mention that I take all of this a little too personally (result of being almost 40, having worked in this thankless business for 12-plus years, and chronic self-doubt) and get totally bummed when not a single Open Letter book shows up on the Quarterly Conversation Favorite Reads of 2013 lists. (SPOILER ALERT: All you'll find behind that link is The Most Experimental Dalkey Archive Books and Seiobo There Below.)
For now, I'm not sure if there's a better way to provide readers with information on forthcoming translations. My current mix of jokes and titles is probably not smarmy enough to go viral, and not smart enough to serve as a legitimate place to check for recommendations. (Surprise! Three Percent is not the Times Literary Supplement.) I'll keep thinking about it over the course of the year though, and hopefully along the way we'll provide some interesting recommendations. (And starting next month maybe we'll say something about the books themselves. If there's one thing I've learned from the listicle sites, it's that content is totally and utterly irrelevant.)
And with that, I'm ready to announce Resolution #1: No More Writing about BuzzFeed/Flavorwire and the Reasons They Annoy Me. Down with lists and resolutions! Long live lists and resolutions!
The Light and the Dark by Mikhail Shishkin, translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield (Quercus)
Resolution #2: Write More Reviews.
Every year I make the same promise—to do more reviewing—and then fail miserably. Out of the 112 books I read last year, I wrote reviews of what, four? Five? That's pathetic. My goal is at least two a month, preferably three. And The Light and the Dark will be one of these.
(Although when I do review this, I'll have to make a disclaimer that there is a LOT of bad blood between me and Quercus, over Shishkin's work in particular. And thank god Shish got himself a new agent. Read into that all you will.)
The Islands by Carlos Gamerro, translated from the Spanish by Ian Barnett (And Other Stories)
Resolution #3: Sell a Lot More Books.
So, here's some breaking news for everyone: As of June 1st, Open Letter will be distributed by Consortium. This is fantastic news for everyone involved. This should make it easier for us to get our books into East Coast and Midwest stores (the West Coast has been doing great by us, thanks to George Carroll's efforts), and frees up some time for us to work at promoting our books.
Aside from the practical reasons for joining up with Consortium, I'm really excited to be in with a group of great publishers like And Other Stories and BOA Editions and Copper Canyon, and Dzanc, and others. Feels like the place that we should've been all along . . .
Trieste by Daša Drndić, translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias-Bursać (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Resolution #4: Create a Special Series for the World Cup.
George Carroll announced our forthcoming World Cup of Books at Shelf Awareness today, which means it's definitely going to happen. I'll be posting more specifics in the not-too-distant future, but if you're interested in helping contribute, please let me know. (Really looking for people well-versed in the literature of the qualifying countries with fewer books available in America.)
Seeing that Croatia took out my beloved Iceland—which would've been the smallest country ever to qualify for a World Cup—this seems like an appropriate book under which to announce our little contest.
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide, translated from the Japanese by Eric Selland (New Directions)
Resolution #5: Read One Book from Every World Cup Qualifying Country.
Following up on #4, this seems like a great way to combine my interests in soccer and literature . . . Not sure The Guest Cat will be the book I read from Japan, but it does feature a cat and we all know that cats sell. I know there's no way ND would ever put together a cute cat video compilation to promote this books, but, seriously, cats sell. This poster is pretty much the only reason so many students sign up for my spring class:
Poems to Read on a Streetcar by Oliverio Girondo, translated from the Spanish by Heather Cleary (New Directions)
Resolution #6: Make September A Thousand Forests in One Acorn Month.
This anthology—edited by Valerie Miles—features 28 Spanish-language authors, including a lot of "Big Name" writers like Fuentes, Marias, Vargas Llosa, Vila-Matas and the like, and twelve that have never before appeared in English. What's unique about this collection is that each piece is prefaced by an interview with the author in which s/he explains why s/he chose this particular story/excerpt as a representative of his/her "aesthetic high point" and also talks about his/her influences, etc. So, for the month of September, every day we'll run either an excerpt from one of the interviews, or a bit from a previously untranslated story. Stay tuned—this is an incredible collection and you're going to love the shit out of these pieces.
The Interior Landscape by A. K. Ramanujan, translated from the Tamil by the author (New York Review Books)
Resolution #7: Expand My Reading Horizons.
In a little while, I'm going to post a list of all the books I read in 2013. This is kind of pointless, but since I kept track of the titles and what languages they were originally written in, I can confirm that, out of the 111 books I read last year only 27 were by authors from courtries outside of Europe and North & South America. And that includes the 16 Korean titles I read for the LTI Korea—most of which I wouldn't have otherwise picked up. So, to be honest, less that 10% of the books I read last year were from India, the Middle East, Africa, Asian, etc. . . . That's kind of sad. I want to do better with that this year.
1914 by Jean Echenoz, translated from the French by Linda Coverdale (New Press)
Resolution #8: Create Some Sort of Translator Love Month.
Way back when, Erica Mena and I interviewed a bunch of translators at ALTA Pasadena (in 2009??) and posted all of these on Three Percent. As an advocate for translators, I think we really should do this more often, like, maybe in October, to correspond with the publication of A Man Between: The Life and Teachings of Michael Henry Heim, we could have a month of short interviews highlighting the most interesting and talented translators working today. You know, people like Linda Coverdale.
This Is the Garden by Giulio Mozzi, translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris (Open Letter)
Resolution #9: More Self-Promotion.
This is probably my depression talking, but it seems like for the past few years, we've been talking up all sorts of interesting and fantastic projects and books, but receiving very little love in return. As a result, I'm going to take extra efforts to make sure that we get a lot of info about our new books up on Three Percent and elsewhere.
Starting with this year's first release, the short story collection, "This Is the Garden": by Giulio Mozzi and translated from the Italian by Elizabeth Harris. It's a great collection, and one that includes angel dong. Seriously. Come for the angel dong, and stay for the beautiful prose!
All Russians Love Birch Trees by Olga Griasnowa, translated from the German by Eva Bacon (Other Press)
Resolution #10: Post at Least Once a Day.
When things get busy, it's really easy to just skip posting for a day, which then becomes two . . . three . . . a week. Thankfully, Kaija has been keeping the site going with lots of book reviews (thanks to all of you!), but I'm going to make a dedicated effort to install a Five Day Plan mixing book posts, with industry posts, with links to other interesting articles.
The Literature Express by Lasha Bugadze, translated from the Georgian by Maya Kiasashvili (Dalkey Archive)
Resolution #11: Launch Open Letter After Dark.
I'm keeping most of this under wraps for now, but sometime soon, I hope we'll have some exciting news . . .
Have a great 2014!


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The open road is host to all kinds of drivers– speed demons, show-offs, and drivers who just want to arrive at their destination in one piece. Cautious driver Carol Harllee chose her 2001 Subaru Forester because of its reputation for reliability.
"It has all-wheel drive, and that makes me feel safe," she says.
As a Spanish teacher at JMU, Harllee commutes over Afton Mountain a few times a week, where adverse road conditions often force her to utilize that feature.
"I had to drive over to the Valley when it was snowing hard." she says. "It handled very well."
Although Harllee's a satisfied Subaru driver, her particular model has a downside: "It's considered a small SUV, so insurance is higher," Harllee says. "It frustrates me to no end."
The Forester might be considered a small SUV by insurance companies (although it looks like a standard station wagon), but Harllee claims that the "fantastic" sunroof feature of her car "makes it almost like a convertible when you open it up."
In addition to reassuring her on her commute, certain features of the wagon help Harllee with her avocations. "I garden a lot, and I can put stuff in the back like mulch, soil, and plants," she says.
Driving around town in her Forester has made Harllee sensitive to how many of them are cruising the streets: "I don't know why, maybe because they're reliable or cheaper than Toyotas."
Harllee says that with Charlottesville's sea of Subarus, "I must fit some type of demographic– maybe the university crowd."
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Merchant banker and professional deal-maker Gardner Brook has different explanations for the scar on his neck. They range from the pedestrian (a fall down some stairs in downtown Brisbane), to the preposterous (he was bayoneted through the neck while on a special forces training exercise).
The trouble is, of course, that only one of those stories can be true. For those around him, Brook's life is a bit like that: a tussle between fact and fiction. The investment guru has access to deal books in London and Monaco and even to petro-dollars in Dubai. Or he does not.
But there is at least one sure thing in Brook's world. In just a few weeks, the 40-year-old will take his seat before a public inquiry to explain his role in a corruption scandal that has embroiled three former cabinet ministers and some of the wealthiest businessmen in NSW.
One question the Independent Commission Against Corruption might ask is this: Why did Brook boast of ''inside intelligence'' during a coal licence tender run by Ian Macdonald, the now disgraced former resources minister?
It might also ask how he first met Moses Obeid, the son of Macdonald's mate Eddie Obeid, the ALP kingmaker, and what they discussed. But then, the ICAC might simply want to know one thing: how could it be that Brook, with no mining experience and just a $1 company, was issued an exploration licence worth millions?
But the problem for the ICAC will be in deciding what is true and what is not in the incredible story of Paul Gardner Brook's life.
Certainly he has come a long way from his early days in the former gold-rush capital, Bendigo. From there, it seems he joined the army. That is what everyone who has met him agrees - though they don't know if he attended the officer's training college at Duntroon or travelled over to Perth to join the SAS. He did a business degree at La Trobe, and then moved into banking and finance. He first appears on the corporate records radar in 1997, when he set up something he called Oregon Standard Pty Ltd.
At about this time he had taken a job with an equipment finance company in Brisbane, then called ANA Capital. Its boss, Andrew Noble, had also heard the story of his military training. ''I am not sure if he was SAS, but he had a military background - it was on his resume,'' he said. ''As far as we were told, he did serve in Timor.
''Our objectives didn't see eye to eye and he ended up resigning probably about 18 months after he started,'' Noble says.
''I came in one day the weekend after he resigned and he was in here downloading files.''
Brook moved to Melbourne and into business in 1999 with some fast-moving finance guys in Melbourne. He fitted in perfectly. ''Slick'' was how one described him. Another said he was ''confident to the point of arrogance'', but certainly he could talk the talk. He had a good head for figures and he knew how to give a presentation.
Riverside Capital's owner, Steven Goldberg, was so impressed with him that he gave him a start. The way he tells it, he expected Brook to bring in big corporate deals. ''I got him set up in his own entity, GBM. We had 23 people and $350 million a year in loans. We set up GBM capital and I said, here, you run that.''
The idea was that Brook would find distressed companies that could be turned around or other smart companies to pour money into and then Goldberg and his private equity contacts would stump up the money; everyone would get fees along the way. But Brook worked on only one deal with a plastics manufacturing company before things turned pear-shaped.
He and Goldberg blame each other on the falling out; each say they were left short-changed.
Those close to Brook describe a frenetic lifestyle of entertaining clients and heavy drinking that meant he was out most nights of the week into the small hours. Although he jetted overseas regularly and dressed sharply, often there was little money around; for several years, during 2008 and 2009, when he was doing deals with mining companies in Sydney, he lived in a Potts Point flat that an associate of his said was bare except for a bed, chair and fridge.
Another person tells a story from a social gathering about Brook's fantasies: ''He starts crying, and the girls start asking him 'what's wrong?' He said, this was the anniversary of a mission I oversaw in a 'Black Hawk down' kind of [scenario]. [He was saying] I was in charge of a platoon of US SAS rangers and as they went down the rope from the helicopter they were shot and set upon by the enemy and five of the Americans died. What made him cry was it was not only the anniversary but one of the widows had called him to say, 'it is not your fault, Gardner.' ''
Brook was also volatile. At one Christmas party in Melbourne about 10 years ago, which he attended with his wife, he headbutted Goldberg's accountant after a drunk karaoke session. After singing with their arms around each other, Brooks accused the man of letting his hand slip down her back to her bottom.
He and his wife moved back to Brisbane and he fell in with the long-standing Gold Coast mayor Ron Clarke. Brook helped Clarke with a sprawling island resort called Couran Cove on South Stradbroke Island (though it is not clear exactly what he did), and he also worked on one of Clarke's many successful election campaigns. ''He was very effective and very good,'' Clarke says.
Nonetheless they parted ways after the campaign, and after another stint in Melbourne and the breakdown of his marriage, Brook took a job in Singapore with Pan-Asia Presidio Capital.
While there, he made a contact who gave him what should have been a golden ticket to return to Sydney. In the early months of 2008, Brook was appointed as a vice-president for Lehman Brothers' Australian subsidiary, Grange Securities. Suddenly he had a balance sheet of several million dollars. He had cachet.
On September 15, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, everything changed. Four weeks later Brook was out of a job. He began trawling for work. In 2010, he started a company with Troy Dann, the TV star of Outback Adventures. Dannbrook Pty Ltd was to be an agricultural fund that would invest in bush ventures the banks were ignoring. ''We talked about a project that could help farmers,'' Dann says. ''He was a lot of talk but I found him to be quite shady and I didn't go forward with him because I didn't want to be associated with him.''
Brook also tried starting up another venture capital fund with former solicitor Hector Ekes, a close friend of Moses Obeid, but this too soured. Ekes ended the relationship after Brook allegedly used Ekes's $50,000 to fly to Monaco with his girlfriend and shop at Harrods in London.
Brooks said he needed to fly there urgently to find the finance he needed to rescue the one big deal he had been working on while at Lehmans - a bid for a coal exploration licence that could be worth tens of millions of dollars.
He had secured a retainer with one bidder, Monaro Mining, by promising he had the inside running on the tender. And when Monaro decided it couldn't afford to follow the bid through, it was Brook himself who was awarded an exploration licence for a mining tenement now called Ferndale. It is worth tens of millions of dollars. His business partner in the venture was Andrew Kaidbay, a long-standing adviser to the Obeid family.
But it seems Brook just can't take a trick. First Lehmans collapsed. And now, his coal deal is about to be picked over by David Ipp, QC, the state's current corruption-busting inquisitor. Many are waiting to see whether even he can get to the bottom of Brook's story.
In the meantime, however, Fairfax Media has at least been able to get an answer about what happened to his neck. How did he get that raised, livid scar behind his ear, we asked. Was it a glassing (another of his explanations)? Or was it the bayonet?
He paused for a moment on the phone from Singapore and said that, in fact, he has two scars on his neck.
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Thank you. Sometimes i end up with a mental block for the silliest of reasons. This helps more than you think.
Have other folks taken to taking flying kits with them? I can see how that would be impractical on a lodge trip, where every minute of your time is accounted for, but it would seem to complement a DIY trip much better. Also gives one somehing to do in inclement weather.
What the heck...
hooks, TMC 811s #6, #4, #2
thread - tan, orange, white, mono (clear)
zap a gap (instead of head cement for bonefish flies)
bobbin(s), bodkin and whip finisher
dub wax, dub spinner
medium bead eyes, gold & silver; a few small a few large
small 'realeyes' with matching sticker eyes for clousers
baitfish sized eyes
small aquaseal tube
body stuff:
scud, light pink, orange color dubbing, scintilla is best - "shrimpy" dubbing
tan dubbing, gray, brown, olive - "earthy" flats and marl colors
tan chenille, pink, orange etc (although I typically dub instead)
crab yarn
ezybody for crabs
pantone pen for marking
felt pads
think mono for melted eyes
rubber legs / small hackles / grizzly hackles
synthetic hair - polar bear / chartreuse / root beer
white bucktail / chart / tan / olive
pearl flash
pearl bodybraid
angel hair - rainbow, gold, etc
marabou - tan, orange, pink, barred (mottled) or substitude base feathers of grizzly hackle
natural mallard or wood duck
natural bunny strips
Since I really only use like three flies for bones - a tan gotcha with pearl highlights, a small crab and an unweighted shrimp variation of a steelhead fly I designed to trick shallow water tailers without spooking them... the above list is plenty and includes a bunch of stuff for clousers and deceivers just in case.
For other species you'd need more stuff
Good luck Josko
Bonefish fly tying kit
I'm thinking of bringing a flytying kit for a month-long Bahamas bonefishing trip. I'm try9ing to put together a materials kit by losting components of all my favorite flies, but I get this nasty feeling I'll forget something and be very, very sorry. Would anybody know a link to a bonefish-specific tying kit I could use to cross-check what I plan to bring along.
If anybody feels like taking a crack at the materials in a bone-specific tying kit, I'd much appreciate it.
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The babies, when they are born, are inconsolable, their frantic, high-pitched cries a telltale sign of a newborn in the throes of drug withdrawal.
Canada's baby specialists are witnessing an alarming new phenomenon: growing numbers of infants being born dependent on prescription painkillers and other opioids.
Rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome, or NAS, have doubled in Canada, the latest fallout of the rise in legitimate and illicit use of prescription opioids across the country.
Most of NAS is due to opioids, drugs that include oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin and its successor, OxyNEO.
In Ontario, the rate of postnatal drug withdrawal increased from 1.3 babies per 1,000 births in 2004, to 4.3 in 2010, according to a provincial task force.
NAS was diagnosed in 654 babies in Ontario in 2010-11, up from 171 newborns in 2003-04.
"The numbers are very, very significant — you hear it from all over the province, and all over the country," says Dr. Gideon Koren, director of the renowned Motherisk Program at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children.
"The burden is huge," says Koren, who will speak on the issue at the Canadian Paediatric Society's annual meeting in London, Ont., this week. "These kids stay in hospital sometimes months to get them off the drug."
At The Ottawa Hospital, "we are part of the whole nation's trend — we're beginning to see a lot more cases coming in," says Dr. Pradeep Merchant, site chief of the division of neonatology at hospital's Civic campus.
He said the phenomenon is occurring among women of all socioeconomic groups, and not just the socially marginalized. "A lot of childbearing moms are on those medications," he said. A decade ago, "we would see one (NAS baby) every three or four months," Merchant said. The hospital now sees "one, two or three a month," he said.
In Vancouver, where the street drugs of choice have long been heroin, cocaine and crystal meth, "we are starting to see more young women on prescription opioids that are impacting their pregnancies," said Dr. Ron Abrahams, medical director of perinatal addictions at BC Women's Hospital in Vancouver.
Across Canada, doctors are being urged to screen for mothers who are at risk for, or who are using narcotics during pregnancy.
An expert panel of the Ontario Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health is also calling for a co-ordinated strategy that would include formalized funding for toxicology screening to test all known and suspected cases of NAS in newborns, as well as more resources for addiction treatment and other support services, especially in northern and First Nations communities. At this week's pediatricians' meeting, Koren will discuss how NAS can be detected in a baby's hair and meconium.
"If the mother hasn't done her drugs for a while — a day or two, or more — the baby's urine and blood may not show it," he said. Depending on the drug, signs of withdrawal can start as early as 24 hours after birth, or as late as a week or longer. If a baby is sent home undetected, the situation could be life threatening. "He may not feed, he may end up dehydrated and having seizures," Koren said.
Some are calling for a major social marketing movement to raise awareness about the risks of narcotic use in pregnancy, similar to campaigns around drinking in pregnancy and fetal alcohol syndrome.
"The level of awareness must be much higher," Koren says. "It's a national emergency."
Canadians today are among the highest users of prescription opioids in the world: in the past decade alone, our opioid consumption has more than doubled. Among the provinces in 2010, Alberta had the overall highest opioid use rate in the country, Quebec the lowest, but nowhere are the rates falling.
Among pregnant women two things are happening: their use of narcotics is growing, and the treatment used to get them off their drug of choice itself increases the risk of neonatal drug withdrawal.
Between 1991 and 2009, the number of prescriptions for oxycodone in Ontario rose by 900 per cent, says Dr. Kimberly Dow, a professor of pediatrics at Queen's University in Kingston and co-chair of the Provincial Council for Maternal and Child Health task force on neonatal abstinence syndrome.
"Physicians are prescribing these (drugs), legitimately in many cases, but sometimes over-prescribing", Dow said. Along with the higher prescribing has come higher rates of abuse and dependence. A study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that the number of mothers in the U.S. using opiate drugs increased five-fold over the last decade.
Methadone is the drug of choice for a narcotic-addicted mother in pregnancy. "It's safer for the mom, it reduces risk and it provides a better pregnancy outcome," Dow says. But methadone is long acting, meaning it stays in the baby's system longer. About 85 per cent of babies exposed to methadone in the womb develop at least one sign of drug withdrawal.
Opioids cross the placenta. The concentration in the baby's blood is the same as it is in the mother's, Dow says. At birth, the placenta is cut off, and, with it, the baby's drug supply.
Babies can experience the same symptoms of withdrawal as an adult coming off heroin.
The suffer central nervous system irritability — an extremely high pitched cry, increased muscle tone, frantic feeding, tremors and seizures — as well as fever, vomiting and diarrhea.
Says Dow, of Queen's: "They look like they're in pain."
"We have an NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) of 22 beds. I've had up to four at one time in there," she said.
The standard treatment for the babies is morphine, the drug slowly tapered off as signs of withdrawal diminish.
In Vancouver, babies are roomed in with mothers immediately after birth, instead of separated. "We try and normalize the birth process," says Abrahams. "As long as the mums are cuddling and holding the baby" and babies are getting proper nutrition from breast-feeding or formula, "the babies tend to do very well and mostly don't need treatment from withdrawal."
The rooming-in program is based on the premise "that these mothers are capable of being nurturing mothers who really only want the best for their babies, but haven't been allowed to be given that opportunity in the past because they've been labelled as drug addicts."
"The baby is basically withdrawing from the mother if you put the baby in another room."
He said it's a standard of care that should be introduced nationwide.
"What's going to drive the country to do it is when you have a middle-class woman who, for whatever reason, has been prescribed opiates and finds that it's becoming an issue more of dependence and addiction rather than simple prescription for an episode in her life, when she becomes pregnant and she's told that the baby will be separated from her at birth because they're going to watch for withdrawal, the middle-class consumer will say, 'Why are you doing this?' "
For babies, the long-term consequences of NAS are unknown, Merchant, of Ottawa, says.
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Teens were 'hyped' for fatal downtown New London attack
Six New London teenagers were sitting around playing Xbox and watching a cop show on television on the last Friday in October when they decided to go out and jump somebody.
Something they saw on TV got them "hyped," and then Rahshad Perry dared Idris Elahi to stab somebody.
As Perry and Elahi moved to give each other "dap," a kind of handshake oath that only members of the Goon Squad gang are familiar with, two others, Tyree Bundy and Brian Rabell, tried to break them up.
"I didn't want what we were about to do to escalate to that level," Rabell testified Friday in New London Superior Court.
Within a short time, 25-year-old Matthew Chew would be lying on the side of the road, barely able to breathe and bleeding from stab wounds to the heart and small intestine. He was able to tell a passer-by that he had been jumped and stabbed, but he said little more before he succumbed to his injuries early the next morning.
A clearer picture of the events of Oct. 29, 2010, emerged in a packed New London courtroom Friday as the state called witnesses at a probable cause hearing for 17-year-old Elahi, who is accused of stabbing Chew with a folding knife during an attack on Huntington Street.
Six New London teenagers are accused of taking part in the apparently random killing that still has the community on edge. On Friday, three of them, Bundy and Rabell, who are 18, and 17-year-old Marquis Singleton, testified for the state with hopes of getting a better deal in their own cases.
Rabell admitted he was being a "follower when he should have been a leader" on that October night and issued an apology from the witness stand.
"I just want the victim and his family to know that I didn't intend on any of this to happen," he said. "I believe I did do wrong, so whatever consequences I get I deserve."
Before he was charged as an accessory to Chew's murder, Rabell, a 2010 graduate of Grasso Tech, had been accepted into the Marines. He said he would have "shipped off" on Jan. 10.
Families in attendance
Chew's parents, Rick and Marilyn Chew, and his siblings and family friends filled two rows of courtroom benches. Rick Chew wore a necktie with a collage of his son's paintings. Marilyn Chew wore a locket with pictures of her son as a smiling boy.
Family and friends of the defendants occupied another seven rows. Elahi's parents, Damita and Muneer Elahi, were allowed to sit directly behind their son because of his age. His twin brother sat several rows back.
According to the testimony, the six teens had gathered at Elahi's house on Home Street at 8 or 9 p.m. Elahi's bedroom was on the third floor and had a separate entrance.
Tyree Bundy was a senior at New London High School who said he was on target to graduate before his arrest.
"Something happened on the TV that made us want to go out and do something," Bundy testified. He could not recall what "cop show" they were watching.
The group headed downtown in search of a victim. Bundy said they saw people in Halloween costumes coming out of the Crocker House but decided to pass them by.
"They looked like they were having a good time, came from a party," Bundy said.
The group ran into a teacher from New London High School, who told them to "stay out of trouble."
They targeted one man as their victim but gave up on him when he climbed into a car.
Then they saw a man with a tan baseball cap walking alone on Huntington Street. Chew had clocked out from his cook job at 2Wives Brick Oven Restaurant a short time earlier. He lived less than a tenth of a mile away, at 73 Washington St.
Account of attack
The teens spotted Chew and then split up "in case he tried to run" when they attacked him, according to Singleton. Matias Perry asked Chew if he had a lighter and then hit him on the left side of the face when Chew reached into his pocket. Singleton then hit Chew on the right side of the face, he said.
Then, Bundy said, it was "everybody jumping on him pretty much."
Chew got up and ran back up Huntington Street, but Elahi "ran up on him and starting hitting him in the abdomen," according to Rabell, who said he didn't know Elahi had a knife.
During the attack, Chew was trying to break loose and run, Rabell said.
"He was all like, 'Why? What's going on? Why is this happening?' '' Rabell said.
The teens' individual testimonies differed slightly as they described their roles, and Bundy denied that he and his cousin, Rahshad Perry, had even laid hands on Chew.
Singleton said he went home and started crying because "somebody got hurt." He said he was unaware that someone had died until Matias Perry called him the next morning and said, "We caught a body."
Two nights later, on Halloween, the six defendants went trick-or-treating together on Montauk Avenue and talked about not saying anything about the attack, according to Singleton.
Also Friday, first responders testified. The prosecution played the 911 recording that brought police and rescue crews to the crime scene. On the recording, New London resident Shaun Smalley tells the dispatcher he just "rolled up" on Chew lying in the road near the intersection of Huntington and Jay streets and that Chew can't breathe.
"Does he know what happened?" the dispatcher asks.
"Do you know what happened, buddy?" Smalley asks Chew. Chew apparently speaks in the background, then Smalley tells the dispatcher, "He got jumped." A moment later, Chew could be heard on the tape, saying faintly, "I got stabbed."
Smalley tried to protect and comfort Chew until police arrived a minute later.
Paramedic Ameran Flynn said Chew was unresponsive when he arrived at the scene within six minutes of being dispatched by police. Chew was brought to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital in New London.
"We regained a pulse at the hospital as soon as we pulled in," Flynn said.
Jonathan Aki, an emergency room physician, said he and others were able to stabilize Chew and decided that he should be airlifted to Yale-New Haven Hospital's trauma unit.
At Yale, surgeon Lewis J. Kaplan testified, he opened Chew's chest in the emergency room and worked on the heart injury because Chew was too fragile to move to the operating room. Doctors later moved the young man to the operating room, but after three hours they were unable to control his bleeding and pronounced him dead.
Kaplan said doctors may have been able to save Chew had he been closer to a level 1 trauma facility when stabbed.
The hearing is scheduled to resume Feb. 28, when the state expects to call one or two more witnesses in its effort to demonstrate there is enough evidence to prosecute Elahi for murder. The presiding judge, Patrick J. Clifford, will decide whether there is probable cause that a crime was committed and that Elahi probably committed the crime.
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"The blog post posits that IP/trade secret concerns are reasons that are not already covered to take down botnets. That's a civil/private context and we've seen private companies use the Lanham Act to handle that angle. Seems like the DOJ is pushing for a more expansive law. As of now, we've seen DOJ been able to handle takedowns with the resources and laws that are already provided to them," Jaycox said.
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A little over a week ago we told you folks about Windows Phone supporting 1080p displays later this year. Windows Phone 8 added supported for both 720p and 768p displays, both of which were present on handsets like the Lumia 920 and HTC 8X at launch. The 1080p support will be available for handsets over 5 inches, allowing Windows Phone devices to compete against the surprisingly popular 'phablet' category. And it looks like Nokia may be one of the first to produce such a phablet, as early as July. But wait, there's more.
The Financial Times reports that Nokia is in the process of making a large screen smartphone to take on the Galaxy Note and other phablets. It should come with a crisp 1080p display as well. However, the proverbial cherry on top should come in the imaging department.
Back at CES we told learned about Nokia's strategy for the upcoming year. Having a variety of devices was a pillar of that strategy. Another theme the company is focused heavily on innovation and imaging. Here's Chris Weber, US President of Nokia, at the time:
"The most important thing we can do in the U.S. market is bring exclusive devices and opportunities to each of the carriers," he said. "Doing that exclusivity and giving them something unique allows us to get great carrier support."
Nokia is doing just that. We can add this large screen smartphone to our expected lineup of EOS, Catwalk, and the Lumia 928 for Verizon. EOS is expected to pack an 808 PureView type sensor, Catwalk is an aluminum unibody device, and the Lumia 928 is basically a 920 variant for Big Red.
What's exciting is this devices will nearly come out right after each other. May is when we should get the 928 on Verizon, Catwalk on T-Mobile and international carriers in June, all followed by EOS sometime in July for AT&T here in the States and elsewhere internationally. EOS should one of the more exciting devices, especially among photography enthusiasts with its camera around the 40 megapixel mark.
Later today Nokia will share their Q1 results. It looks like the next couple of months are going to be crazy around here at Windows Phone Central. Between the four devices above, which are you most stoked above?
Source: Financial Times (free or paid subscription required), Via: The Verge
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